Power line not needed yet
The cooperation and postive outcome demonstrate the value of collaboration among various stakeholders, including RENEW Wisconsin, in Wisconsin’s energy future, as reported in a story by Tom Content in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The story reads in part:
A $124 million high-voltage power line that would cross 60 miles of Waukesha, Jefferson and Dane counties won’t be needed as soon as planners had envisioned.
That conclusion was reached recently by a collaborative that included customer and environmental groups, American Transmission Co. of Pewaukee and Milwaukee-based We Energies.
The 345,000-volt power line was thought to have been needed as soon as 2011, and was part of a $3.4 billion, 10-year transmission upgrade plan released in September by ATC, the company that owns and operates eastern Wisconsin’s major electric lines.
